ANT – Your Practical Wireless Network Solution

• A complete silicon solution - Software, hardware, development kits and engineering expertise
• Powered by small capacity batteries - Peak and average power consumption of ANT allow it to operate for extended periods (months or years) using CR2032 coin cell batteries
• Simple to implement - ANT can construct simple and complex Practical Wireless Networks with nodes that are able to operate as either slave or masters. There is no requirement for a “family” of node devices with varying specifications
• Scalable - ANT can easily support the ad hoc construction and extension of Practical Wireless Networks with a few or hundreds of nodes
• Proven - ANT is available now, and is proven in over a million nodes worldwide in a range of applications

ANT Technology

ANT is a proven practical wireless network 2.4 GHz RF protocol for almost all ultra-low power sensor network applications in sport, wellness, home and industrial automation. ANT is a robust protocol with an installed base of over a million nodes as of July 1, 2007, enabling wireless connectivity in a new generation of consumer, commercial, industrial and medical products. ANT provides reliable data communications, flexible and adaptive network operation and cross-talk immunity.

Designed for ease of use, efficiency, scalability, interoperability (via the ANT+ managed networks including ANT+SPORT) and ultra-low power, ANT enables sensors to operate for up to three years on a coin cell (CR2032) battery. Based on a Time Domain Multiple Access (TDMA)-like adaptive isochronous network technology, ANT easily handles peer-to-peer, star, tree and practical mesh topologies (with a capability of up to 65,536 slave nodes talking to one master over a time slot shared single channel). ANT’s protocol stack physical layer is extremely compact, requiring minimal microcontroller resources and considerably reducing system costs.